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The Cooper-Hewitt (Upper East Side) is the main design museum; the Museum of Art and Design (Columbus Circle) is brand new. Both I think are less impressive than the Modern Museum, but that has one floor only for design. A lot of this depends on what the special exhibits are.

Three life-changing dishes in New York: (1) pastrami on rye at Katz's (Houston and First Avenue), and (2) papaya salad at Sripraphai in Woodside, Queens, and (3) the Chocolate Bruno at Blue Ribbon, on Sullivan Street south of Houston.

The bar on the northwest corner of First Avenue and 7th Street is mostly for sipping whiskey, and watching the cabs stream past.